Welcome

I am a writer, near empty-nester, and frequent feeder of two cats and three dogs. After years of scribbling my thoughts in tiny notebooks, I recently completed an MFA from Bay Path University in Creative Non-Fiction, realizing my dream of becoming a “real” writer. My work weaves together her reflections on forty-one years of teaching and lessons learned in motherhood. It is said I make the strongest cup of coffee in the Midwest. When I am not writing, I can be found needlepointing, playing with watercolors, doing chair yoga and running Laurel School in Shaker Heights, OH.

I am a founder and editor of Well School: the Site for Educator Story Telling and a regular contributor to Bookclique. I’m proud to have studied with Joelle Fraser, Kate Hopper, Beth Kephart, Leanna Blackwell, Kate Whouley, Tommy O’Shea and Mel Allen.

Inspired by a visit by Naomi Shihab Nye to Laurel some years ago, I found my way back to writing every day. My work has appeared on the Brevity Blog, in Multiplicity, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, the Manifest Station, Literary Mama, Mamalode, and Mutha. My NYT Tiny Love Story about our now departed Shakespeare-loving goldfish, Shark, ran a few summers ago.  My writing about schools and teaching has appeared in Independent School Magazine, on the NAIS Inspiration Blog, and in Community Works Institute Journal. 

My writing about schools and teaching has appeared in Independent School Magazine, on the NAIS Inspiration Blog, and in Community Works Institute Journal. 

I grew up outside of Philadelphia, went to college and first taught in a boarding school in New England, spent twenty years living and teaching in Manhattan and moved to Shaker Heights, OH the summer our son was born. But the fact is that Eagles Mere, PA is the place I think of as home.  My family has spent summers in Eagles Mere since 1912.  Much of my personal writing centers on my family’s experiences in this tiny town on top of a mountain.  

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